It is Joint Spring Conference time again! The conference will be held April 28-30, 2010.
This year it will be held at the General Butler State Resort Park in Carrollton, KY. This is the address and contact information for the park:
1608 Highway 227
Carrollton, KY 41008-0325
Telephone: (502)-732-4384
Toll Free: (866) 462-2253
Mention you are with the Special Libraries Association KY Chapter.
Overflow housing is also available at the Holiday Inn Express. Their phone number is 502-732-6770.
Online registration is available through SurveyMonkey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JWMPJ6M, or you can mail in the paper registration form that will be mailed out shortly.
The mailed registration brochure (http://units.sla.org/chapter/cky/files/JSCBrochure2010.pdf) and registration form (http://units.sla.org/chapter/cky/files/JSCRegistrationForm2010.pdf) can also be downloaded directly to your computer.
The registration fees are:
Full Conference, Member – Thursday and
Friday, April 29 & 30: $70.00
Full Conference, Non-Member – Thursday and
Friday, April 29 & 30: $80.00
Per Day Registration, Member (Thursday or Friday): $45.00
Per Day Registration, Non-Member
(Thursday or Friday): $55.00
Student: $25.00
Late Fee (for registrations after March 31): $20.00
You can pay by check or credit card.
Make checks out to: SLA Kentucky Chapter
Mail checks to:
Alex Grigg
Lexmark Library
740 W. New Circle Rd.
Lexington, KY 40550
Credit card payments will incur a $3.00 service charge and can be made using the PayPal buttons below:
Edit: Late fees are now included in prices
These are the sessions that will be available at the conference:
Edit: The full preliminary conference program is now available at this link: Download 2010 JSC Program-Prelim
Wednesday
Pre-Conference: 1:00 - 4:00 PM
Developing Information Literate Students and Lifelong Learners
FoKAL, The Federation of Kentucky Academic Libraries is a voluntary, self-governing consortium of the libraries of accredited, non-profit Kentucky institutions of higher education dedicated to equitable and cost-effective access to library and information resources and services. The consortium works cooperatively to further teaching, learning and research through the sharing of library collections, programs and expertise.
Early Bird Reception: 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Thursday
Opening Session: 9:00 - 10:15 AM
Does your library's flame need re-"Kindled"? Amazon's wireless e-book reader may be the spark you need
Joyce Neujahr
University of Nebraska - Omaha
Thursday Morning Mini-Sessions: 10:30 - 11:20 AM
Critical Thinking in Information Literacy Instruction
Jo Staggs-Neel
University of Kentucky
Now’s the Time, Online Orientations
Sandy Farrell, Carol Driver, Anita Weathers
West Kentucky Community & Technical College
Working with MBAs
Peter Hesseldenz
University of Kentucky
Thursday Afternoon Mini-Sessions: 1:00 - 3:50 PM
KYVL: Stupid Database Tricks
Betsy Hughes, Enid Wohlstein
Kentucky Virtual Library
EKU Online Reference gets H3lp
Betina Gardner, Julie Silver George, Cindy Judd
Eastern Kentucky University
I Found A Dog In The Mapcase! Practical Solutions in Times of Change
Sue Lynn McDaniel, Nancy Richey, Suellyn Lathrop
Western Kentucky University
Adventures in the stacks: how we learned (not) to weed
Laura Edwards, Cindi Trainor
Eastern Kentucky University
The Secret Life of an IACUC Librarian
Valerie Perry
University of Kentucky
Hard Times and Opportunities: Lessons Learned
Mark Shores
Miami University - Hamilton
Thursday Night Social: 7:30 - 9:30 PM
Party in the Past! An evening of confab, 80's dance music and retro gaming.
Friday
Friday Morning Mini-Sessions: 8:30 - 10:20 AM
Power of Positive Words - NLW bookmark contest in prison
Donna F. Slaton
Green River Correctional Complex Library
The Heat is On: Mobile Initiatives
Lilia Murray
Murray State University
Feeding, Focusing, and Firing Up the Faculty
Karen S. Evans, Jane Hammons
Pikeville College
What the Tweet do we know? Deciphering and Making Use of Twitter
Wendell Barnett
Sullivan University Library
Creating the New “Normal”: The 21st Century Academic Library in Theory and Practice
Arne J. Almquist, Lois Schultz, Threasa Wesley
Northern Kentucky University
Shelf Reading: Every Library Does It… (Can Technology Help?)
Colin Magee
Madisonville Community College
Closing Session: 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Open Access: Libraries as Agents of Change in Scholarly Communication
Kristi L. Palmer,
IUPUI University
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